Sentinel (Radiant Dawn)

Sentinel Levail, an enemy Sentinel, in Radiant Dawn. Legendary lancers who stride battlefields with calm and surety. They wield the skill Impale.

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) Lance Skill(s) Impale, Shove

The Sentinel (Japanese: 聖槍使いホーリーランサー Holy Lancer; PAL: Lancer) is an advanced infantry class which is exclusive to Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. Sentinels are a rare third-tier promoted class and the final stage in the Soldier class change line, promoting from Halberdiers, and like their lesser forms, they exclusively wield lances.

Sentinels are roughly a lance-wielding counterpart to Trueblades, Reavers and Marksmen, and distinguish themselves with stats that help them perform a bulky offensive role. Their raw strength is stellar, and while their speed and skill are below average, their defense is impressive for a class outside the Knight family. Owing to being both powerful and durable, Sentinels tend to be excellent front-line units and, unlike the Knight family, have movement decent enough to allow them to keep up. Their primary flaws are their speed which, while not terrible, may lead to them being more readily doubled by Trueblades and other faster classes; and their resistance, which is as mediocre as any other physically inclined class. Sentinels are also aided by their exclusive access to the Impale skill, which if activated has a very high chance of taking out a foe in a single blow.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	53	21	3	21	17	0	21/19	8/10	7	12/7	A

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	60/58	35/34	20	35	33/34	30	34/33	27/30	20	99	SS

Miscellaneous stats

Game	Experience	CRP	Gold	Weight mod.	Capacity	Vision	Size
Radiant Dawn (Male)	--	--	--	+8	60	3	--
Radiant Dawn (Female)	--	--	--	+7	60	3	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Radiant Dawn	75/65%	45/40%	20%	45/65%	40/60%	25/30%	45/35%	40/35%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.
Radiant Dawn	Critical +10	Innate.
Radiant Dawn	Impale	Innate (Mastery skill).

Class change

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class	Promotion method	Master class
Soldier	Using a Master Seal after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Halberdier	Using a Master Crown after reaching Level 10, or reaching Level 21.	Sentinel

Notable enemy Sentinels

Enemy Units
Name	Game
Levail	Radiant Dawn
Enemy Sentinel (Radiant Dawn) units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	Knights whose mastery of the lance are the stuff of legends. They possess the skill Impale.	数多の戦場を我が物とする 伝説の槍使い 奥義【撃破】の使い手
Radiant Dawn (help)	Legendary lancers who stride battlefields with calm and surety. They wield the skill Impale.	数多の戦場を我が物とする 伝説の槍使い 奥義【撃破】の使い手

Trivia

• In the PAL version of Radiant Dawn, even though the PAL release renames the Sentinel class to "Lancer", Impale's description still refers to the class as "Sentinel".
• In Radiant Dawn's class roll, the Sentinel class is referred to as "Lancer", even in the North American version.

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Sentinel	A sentry, guard or watchman, sometimes with the specific context of guarding borders or preventing ambushes.
English (Europe)	Lancer	A generic term for a lance-wielding soldier. Historically speaking, "lancer" was a common term for lance-armed cavalry units.
Japanese	聖槍使いホーリーランサー	Officially romanized as Holy Lancer; literally "holy lance user". In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 聖槍使い), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. ホーリーランサー) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll.
Spanish	Lancero	Lancer
French	Maître-lance	Lance-master
German	Wächter	Guard
Italian	Lanciere	Lancer

Gallery

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  Levail, an enemy Sentinel, in Radiant Dawn.

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  Aran as a Sentinel in Radiant Dawn.

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  Nephenee as a Sentinel in Radiant Dawn.

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  Danved as a Sentinel in Radiant Dawn.

References

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.